Looks gorgeous Cutch

 

Thanks mate, how you enjoying your new garage?

 

yr flyin now m8 lookin good

 

Not looked at this thread for a while, big fan of this though.. looking fantastic.


Cheers,
Grant

 

Looks fantastic mate.

 

Its fuckin great m8

 

Started getting the engine and box in while the boys were doing the fuel tank


Engine off stand and onto the crane.



Empty engine bay soon to be filled.



Flywheel cleaned up and on,



Clutch on,



Gearbox test fitted.



Meanwhile the boys had fitted the tank,



And they measured everything perfectly months ago!!!





Right, I was going to take a pic of it when it was in the bay but I thought I’ll leave that till the end once its sitting right and I forgot! Sorry.


Well heres one from under looking at the clutch,



And we managed to get the Diff in and the gearbox, forgot to get a pic of that too! Oops



Tomorrow I will get the pics, and we are going to sort out a couple of other wee bits. Fitting a new bonnet and hopefully the bumpers, brakes and front driveshafts if theres time.

 

drop me a txt mush ....... no rush

 

Looking spot on mate, keep up the good work

 

looks spot on m8

doin a crackin job! it will soon b on the road the way yr goin




jay

 

Going back to work on tuesday so its going to be a while before i can get anything else done, gutted getting into the swing of it, next time home will be mostly wiring and exhaust, starting up and interior. Maybe even manage to get it MOT'd but i doubt it......

 

looking good but i must say you have done the last bit the hard way when doing a 4x4 cosworth its best to put the box / motor / shafts / diff / all togever on the front beam then put the hole car over it all in one go job done . shame you have to go off to work again now that your so in to it

 

Looks like ford themselves built it
Stunning Cutch well done

 

Yeah thats the way i would have done it at home mate but this was a favour in a working garage Aly and the boys have paying customers that are coming in so if they needed the ramp we could get it off without to much hassle.

 

cheers mate, you should like the pics from the top them, cannot believe that i didnt take a picture! look amazing seeing the imperial blue rocker cover sticking out the top

 

Gearbox mounted with the new mount, prop fitted too.



The view from the top!








Spent a wee bit of time sorting the suspension ride height out. Think it looks excellent myself, might have difficulty getting over the speed bumps outside the house.



Refurbished the front driveshafts and fitted them. No pics though!



Boys were busy today with other cars so didn’t manage to get the tank finished but took some more underside pics.











And some more of the top, just for the hell of it!







And my favourite!

 

that looks ace

 

Looking good in there mate

 

That looks like it was straight out the factory.

Nice update mate.

 

that looks factory built,

fantatsic project

 

Stunning Cutch

 

The end is in sight mate looking fantastic

 

Just looks so good.

Are the wheels staying dark or going silver to freshen up the outside??


Cheers,
Grant

 

stunning work mate

 

That's one bloody impressive car you have there... I'm not suprised you got carried away taking photos of the engine in the bay!

 

Awesome build!

 

TOP job mate, doing this myself, just a 4x4 mk4 F-40 norwegian car the front section is that from a 4x4 rolling shell? im using 3doors mk1 2wd so im worried about the gearbox wont fit....... i hope so

 

lovely!

 

cheers guys

Thats the plan guys, want it to look as factory as possible, just not sure what colour to do the strut brace in, white or crackle black?

Had a feeling you might see this tonight, how you doing mate, getting there, been a long process but its getting close now, pity i am going away in a few days! will hopefully have it running next time home.

The Rs7's are going to be going on mate, the new ones i got, they are honestly mint! was going to get the ones on above done the same sort of colour as the powder coat on the brackets, sort of mercury grey colour cos i really like them too.

thanks guys, makes me smile everytime i stop and look in the engine bay.

yes mine is a 4x4 shell that we cut for the project, if i am following you right the gearbox wont fit, it just need a small section cut out on the drivers side of the transmission tunnel and it will fit. Get a build thread up and let us see it.

 

no be long noo cutch , canny wait to see the finished pics , a big well done man

 

As Cutch say's you'll have to increse the tunnel on the driverside so it clears the transfer diff / front propshaft.
you might find that the gearbox mount wont fit in the 2wd gearbox tunnel as the mounts are in a different position
also make sure you check for clearence on the front chassis legs for the front drive shafts

 

wot have you done with all the photos in your post i got to page 5 and got fed up of all the photos being removed . i just wonted to go back over the hole build

 

Eh? Didn't touch them mate, will go look now

 

I can't see the pics either mate ! Yes mate no doubt I will see this on the road soon and get a good look , hope all is well shame you have to go back to work when your just getting into building it up

 

Its time to pay for photobucket as you need pro

 

Can you just delete some pics to reduce the band width?
I Spose thats whats causing it

 

Just paid for Pro, dont know how long it will take to reset though. Should be back soon guys.

Carlo, hopefully next time i am home it will be running and the time after that it will have all the interior finished and be a proper road going car, will bring it down for you to have a look.

 

looking great cutch, its coming on leaps and bounds

 

Looks lovely that some real nice work

 

Really taking shape now, sweet or what